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This command will get or set the computer system date.

 

 

DATE fn/vRequired - The date field that either contains the new date value or will be the holder.

 

what-to-doGET - The program will get the system date value and put it into the date_field field.

       SET - The program will set the system date to that value in date_field.

 

 

COMMENTS

This command will affect just the workstation it is running on and no others if you are running on a network.

EXAMPLE

define todays_date type D size 8

DATE todays_date GET //current date

or 

DATE todays_date SET //The program will set the system date to that value in date_field.

 

 

SEE ALSO                        

DATE(), DTOC(), DMY(), MDY(), DOM(), YEAR(), CMNTH(), MNTH(), CDOW()

 

 


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